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Brooke Allen

“Dorian Gray” as Wilde actually wrote it

Brooke Allen

“No Regrets”: Discovering Edith Piaf’s epically messy love life

Brooke Allen

“Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin”: The inner life of Bruce Chatwin

Brooke Allen
"The Memory of Love" by Aminatta Forna (Wendy)

“The Memory of Love”: Excavating Sierra Leone’s postwar trauma

Brooke Allen
Steve Martin, author of "An Object of Beauty"

“An Object of Beauty”: Steve Martin’s art-world dud

Brooke Allen
"A Life Like Other People's," by Alan Bennett

A heart-wrenching portrait of pathological shyness

Brooke Allen
"American Insurgents, American Patriots," by T. H. Breen

How insurgents won the American Revolution

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The therapeutic value of the mystery novel

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